infomodder: i'mma make a deal with the bad wolf so the bad wolf don’t bite no more (hello satan i believe it's time to go)
ᴀᴘʀɪʟ's ʜᴜsʙᴀɴᴅ ([personal profile] infomodder) wrote in [community profile] maskormenacelogs 2015-06-06 06:40 am (UTC)

Of all things, he wasn't expecting that sort of an admission. He goes still at the idea of consumption to gain power and then gingerly sets the mug down on the counter. In the middle, away from him, like if he didn't he might just drop it on the floor by accident. Nothing here is funny, and Will Graham is getting a more thorough look at Ken he won't be able to forget or ignore.

"Depends on who's listening." Vague, quiet, perhaps telling of Will's worry. Concern about how Ken might spill too much to the wrong sort. Even though he can handle his own in a fight, there are other sorts of danger out there. The quiet tone vanishes as he rubs at his neck, facts easy to part with while his head spins in circles trying to put something else together. "Cannibalism has a colorful history among humans. Some societies held it as a cultural norm. Some actively worked to enforce it as taboo, not to be done even if you were starving to death and the people you'd be consuming had already passed on."

But. But but but ghoul biology was not human biology. Humans could in no way gain power from devouring others, that was a fact. Gain the power of a full stomach and fuel to keep going to the next meal, same as anything else (and wasn't that part of the horror, that a human could serve in the stead of a cow or pig or fruit and do no better at it?), sure. No gaining knowledge, additional abilities without working for them, or traits. In the end, cannibalism among humans was simply and disturbingly just another bite to eat with a different meat at the core.

So he has to digest this quickly, and wonder, and ask:

"Do ghouls really grow more powerful by eating each other?"

If that isn't fact, proven scientifically in some form or another...Frederick Chilton's words their last session are going to ring like the bells of Notre Dame are housed in his skull, and Will's going to do a lot of drinking.

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